. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Just beginning. From left to right, Thomas inspecting one of their first which did quite well. Norm Holmes had built up a business of boxes and to all appearances he was doing all right too. But one afternoon the three men were talking to Dr. Chandler of the Experimental Station. They said they were interested in going some- where and growing "really nice ; Dr. Chandler suggested Brit- ish Columbia. "So we went out and looked," said Fred. Mr. Crancross turned out to be a genial and extremely helpful host. T
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Just beginning. From left to right, Thomas inspecting one of their first which did quite well. Norm Holmes had built up a business of boxes and to all appearances he was doing all right too. But one afternoon the three men were talking to Dr. Chandler of the Experimental Station. They said they were interested in going some- where and growing "really nice ; Dr. Chandler suggested Brit- ish Columbia. "So we went out and looked," said Fred. Mr. Crancross turned out to be a genial and extremely helpful host. The men discussed the situa- tion on their way back East and by the time they arrived in Carver, they had essentially decided to go to British Columbia to grow those 'really nice cranberry bogs'. Jim had no children at that time and so he was the first to pack up and go West, only one month after returning from the exploratory trip. Departure was more difficult for Norm and Fred. Norm had a business to tie up and Fred was reluctant to leave an ailing father. Soon, however, they were off. Norm left in July and Fred de- parted in August of 1954. Fred Shaw, Norm Holmes and Jim crops on the then new bogs. The fine impression the men had first received of Mr. Crancross was consistently borne out over all the years he worked with them. And he did remain working with them in an invaluable way, for the three were set up as a subsidiary of Western Peat Moss, Ltd., in which Crancross was a partner. They called this new branch, in which they were 50 percent owners, the "Big Red Cranberry Co., ; "We'll furnish the money and you furnish the know-how," Mr. Crancross is reported to have said. "Oh, he was a wonderful man, Mr. Crancross was," recalls Fred affec- tionately. It was largely due to the keen interest and generous spirit of this man that the three "emigrants" were able to succeed at their new venture, according to Mr. Shaw. Since then, the B
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